A/RES/49/125 Page 2 Taking note with interest of the steps taken to complete the restructuring process of the Institute with a view to making it the dynamic training institution that it was originally intended to be, 1. Takes note of the recommendations of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research; 2. Urges Member States to make voluntary contributions to the restructured Institute, in particular to its General Fund, so as to assure its viability and the further development of its training programmes; 3. Reaffirms that the funding of all the administrative budget and the training programmes of the Institute shall be covered from voluntary contributions, donations, special-purpose grants and executing agency overheads; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide for the Institute in the future, and retroactively since the move of its headquarters to Geneva, office space in that city as well as administrative and logistic support at fair costs, based on the costs borne by the United Nations itself and ensuring an equal treatment with other United Nations entities; 5. Also requests the Secretary-General to provide for the Institute at fair costs, based on the costs borne by the United Nations itself and ensuring an equal treatment with other United Nations entities, liaison office space in New York, and, in this context, requests the Board of Trustees to give the necessary attention to these matters with a view to avoiding any negative financial impact on the Institute; 6. Invites the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and the United Nations and its funds and programmes, including the United Nations Development Programme, to develop and intensify their collaboration, with the aim of making the Institute an important provider of training and trainingrelated research for the United Nations system and to avoid unnecessary duplication of work; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to strengthen, in accordance with their respective mandates, the cooperation between the Institute and other qualified national and international institutions, including the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization at Turin, Italy; 8. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on the measures taken in the implementation of the present resolution. 92nd plenary meeting 19 December 1994

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